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teach1st

(5,935 posts) Wed Jul 4, 2018, 03:22 PM Jul 2018

We're being led by bad characters

These kind of fictional characters used to be vilified or ridiculed. Now, real-life characters like them have power and support. What happened?

Biff Tannen (Back to the Future)

Archie Bunker (All in the Family)

Major Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)

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We're being led by bad characters (Original Post) teach1st Jul 2018 OP

Big Business wants a Mussolini in the White House. sandensea Jul 2018 #1

sandensea

(21,635 posts)

1. Big Business wants a Mussolini in the White House.

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Wed Jul 4, 2018, 04:21 PM

Jul 2018

Someone who'll be a poodle with them; but a larcenous thug with the rest of us. And after 40 years of trying, they finally got one.

They forget one thing though: Murphy's Law.

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